On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:30:55 +0200 Sven Anders sven@anders-hamburg.de wrote:
I did it again now with ./flashrom
hello sven,
your board has a quite locked down configuration. 1. it does not allow us enabling bios writes without interacting with SMM. 2. it has locked down the spi configuration without providing valid flash descriptors and has set up a locked region in the first 4 kB of the bios address range. this prevents usfrom accessing this region. i am working on circumventing this. it might not be needed/helpful in this case (the data in that region could be unimportant) though. 3. because of (2) we are limited to a subset of SPI opcodes to use and the normal read command (0x03) is not allowed. i have not looked into it in detail, but there is probably an alternative for that, we just don't use it (yet).
to sum up this means that you should not expect to be able to use flashrom to update the bios of that board soon. a verbose log of executing the current developer source might help digging further, but it won't change my previous statement at all. providing it nevertheless would be appreciated though. :) sorry for the bad news.